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E16

E16 is the current stable version of the enlightenment desktop environment. It is easily available through the default repositories.

E17

About E17

E17 is the latest development version of Enlightenment, This version focuses on speed as well as aesthetically pleasing designs. Users of KDE or Gnome may find it mildly confusing at first but you will quickly grow accustomed to it.

It is recommended that you get the extras, as well as explore the offerings of the repositories. Any modules not included in emodules or emodules-extras will have to be built from source and can be found on the get-e.org modules page. entrance is at present not recommended.

Now you should be able to log out and back in choosing Enlightenment as your desktop. You can install entrance (e17 log in manager) but it has been buggy on occasion so unless you know how to deal with it perhaps it's best to stick w/ KDM or GDM or XDM or whatever you presently use.

Well that's it. Congrats! You've got E17! Now you probably want to do some custom configuration! Go here:
http://get-e.org READ the user manual. This is the best resource for documentation related to E17 and it's actually updated quite frequently.

erme is a frontend for enlightenment_remote. You can of course use enlightenment_remote from command line but it has ALOT of parameters and the GUI is pretty nice. It lets you change mouse behavior, load modules etc.

Tips

Modules

If you don't have a module enabled you may as well unload it since it still consumes resources.

Menus

AFAIK an app placed in the menu that is not found on your system will not display an icon in the menu.

Backgrounds

You can create your own .edj backgrounds from any png or jpeg wallpaper w/ e17setroot.

man e17setroot

Engage

Engage is a tool bar w/ zoomable icons. It is configured from the Menu Editor. You must first load Engage since it is a module.